To think that the car you buy is a statement of the 'tribe' you belong to.

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DH wants to buy a Discovery Sport 7 seater so we can fit 3 DCs plus others.

We live in a relatively affluent area. Discovery Sports around here are driven by perfectly pleasant women, but women who tend not to work, to spend a lot of time and energy on appearance, and who definitely don't ever drive off road.

I come from a working class family. We currently are not affluent. I have worked since I could. I like working. I like to look nice, but for me style is less important than substance.

I do NOT want to drive a Discovery Sport. We have talked about this. He has just bought a friend who works for LR home with one for us to test drive. I work in marketing. I understand very clearly why people chose the brands they chose.

AIBU to insist that we do not buy the Discovery Sport on brand/looks/target market grounds only and the fact it has a fucking tiny rear window which might be why they're always parked over two bays round these parts

I agree Apple, I don't see X5s as flashy by any means.

It's easy

BMW, Audi, Merc, rr - cunt
Q7, x6, evoque, cayenne, rr sport - pointless cunt
Disco sport - wannabe cunt

In reality I couldn't give a stuff what tribe you belong to. Just don't drive like a cunt and the little stick on the left is your indicators. The inside lane of the motorway is for you not just trucks. And those bright lights at the front and rear are for fucking fog when visibility is less than a 100 metres.

I agree Apple, I don't see X5s as flashy by any means.

Phew. I've been around long enough to know that flashy=bad.

X5 = round here = arseholes.

Wow! gingerdad that's a lot of vitriol directed at people based on the car they drive.
And by the way the word c**t is a disgusting word!
I really dislike the way a woman's vagina, is used in such a derogatory and foul manner.
derails thread completely

X5 = round here = arseholes.

A pedestrian told me that I don't drive like an X5 driver after I gestured for him to cross the street. I laughed and told him his bar must be pretty low, and he said it was.

I belong to the tribe of Honda Jazz drivers!
Appearances can be deceptive with finance on cars so easily available.
Most cars nearby look like they should be invading a small country instead of doing the drop off.
It is the lack of ability to drive a 4x4 that most grates on me.

I agree with vingerdad about driving well and courteously. I don't agree that discourteous and poor driving is only practiced by those who drive expensive cars. In percentage terms there are more cars on the road worth less than £10,000 than there are worth more than £30,000 so there actually have to be more poor drivers of cheaper cars than expensive cars.

The foul language issue is something else and never represents style or class or manners although in some circles might be regarded as dickish whereas in others it's just uneducated and vulgar.

I drive a Bmax. It's apparently an 'old lady' car. I don't believe I drive like the archetypal old lady. I swear a lot in my car, although not with the windows open. I am neither uneducated nor vulgar Beaufort.

Current car is a Mercedes SLK, two seater with a roof that comes down. I got this after I decided that I'm done with carting children around and I'm not so old that getting in and out is a problem! I love it, small and easy to park and has plenty of go in it. I have had to hold on to an oldish Astra though to ferry my mum and wheelchair about, but it is also useful as a shopping/commute car as I'm not too precious about the odd scrape, even though I still find it hard to believe how careless people can be in car parks!

gingerdad = jealous cunt

gingerdad = jealous cunt

Bwah.

I swear a lot in my car

If I were teaching my car to talk, its first words would be 'you stupid cunt'.

I belong to the tribe of Honda Jazz drivers!

You are the person I aspire to be. One day when my ship comes in, the Jazz is mine.

If I were teaching my car to talk, its first words would be 'you stupid cunt'.

I used to drive around with a partner at my firm. Whenever someone cut him off he'd shout Invisible fucking car here!

Those would probably be my car's first words, as I've adopted it

I live in a fairly affluent area and the Discovery drivers are just as you have described. These off roaders are always parked outside the local waitrose, hairdressers or bar.

I belong to the tribe of Honda Jazz drivers!

We had a Honda Jazz for a while. Great cars. Just a pity about the granny image which makes everyone pull out in front of you. I wish they'd change the name. They've already updated them. If they changed the name I'd have another one.

I currently have a 2007 Toyota Auris. What tribe does that make me?

I'm not sure why so many people have to drive such huge cars. They can't park them properly. And I'm so surprised that so many cars from German brands are even allowed to be made without indicators...

X5's are not flashy. They are unnecessary, fuel guzzling, big-yet-small-on-the-inside, if-i-have-a-crash-at-least-i'm-bigger-than-you. I can only assume the tribe those drivers belong to is the need-more-brain-cells and a a-bit-insecure tribe. (BIL used to have one!)

When we were over the ferrying children stage, I had a Mazda MX5, followed by two Audi TTs. Then we got grandchildren and I had a Mini Cooper S convertible. They got bigger and I had a Mini Countryman Cooper SD.

Loved the Mazda and the Audis, but hated Audi garages and the fact that every male driver (apologies if it's sexist, but it's true) tried to burn me off at the lights. Couldn't be bothered to respond though.

I quite fancied an evoke when returning to the UK after 3 yrs abroad.
As soon as I landed I changed my mind the way people here drive them! Shocking. The bad reputation is very much earned round this neighborhood.
So I suppose I'm influenced by reputation and how others will judge me .
I plumped for an Audi Q5 so according to this thread - I may be a twat anyway?

I have a Discovery 7 seater. What it says about me is I have a husband, a large dog, 4 teen or near-teen boys, and their school bags/large musical instruments/hockey gear/friends. And one of them does a sport requiring weekends camping in a fairly remote location. It's the car that best meets our needs - our previous Volvo XC90 didn't have enough leg room in the third row. People who make facile, shallow, unpleasant judgements about me based on no knowledge other than the car I drive are, well, facile, shallow and unpleasant and I don't really care what they think.

How many tribes can you be in?, I have 3 cars and two motorbikes.
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Although my favourite is a 1967 Mini Moke.
Does that make me in the Princess Ann/Barbados set?

there actually have to be more poor drivers of cheaper cars than expensive cars

I don't think you can guess how much money someone has based purely on their car. I live near the most expensive street in my city and most of the cars in the driveways aren't flash. My direct neighbours have a home in France that they spend half of the year in and their car is an old Astra.

FrankUnderwoodsWife I agree with you on the use of that word, to derail the thread even more, I have just been on Dr Rant page and getting really hacked off with the use of it on there by him too.

I 'met' a v rude, impatient Skoda Yeti driver yesterday, and I must say I was surprised as all Skoda drivers Ive ever come across have been unfailingly polite and patient.

I know you aren't Dawndonna. I almost qualified that with except for "atrocious cunts". I swear too in the car and other places but not in the nasty way the pp did.